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1885

1900

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AmericanAmerican MutoscopeMutoscope andand

BiographBiograph CompanyCompany The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company,

was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and

active until 1928.

This was the first company in the U.S to develop entirely to

film production and exhibition .

It released over three thousand short films and 12 feature

films in 20 years which was, at the time one of the most

profitably.

In 1991 a new corporation with the same name was

incorporated in California.

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Some Film CompaniesSome Film Companies

from1800

from1800--

early1900

searly1900

s Thanhouser Film

corporation

Nestor Universal

Vitagraph

Independent

Motion Picture Co.

Biograph Company

Fox

Solax Film

Company

LubinWorls

Edison

Essanay

Kalem

Selig Polyscope

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About the Hollywood SignAbout the Hollywood Sign The Sign measures 450 feet long, its mammoth

letters are 45 feet high, and it's visible from allparts of Hollywood.

It was created in 1923 as an advertising sign

for a real estate development in BeachwoodCanyon, the Sign originally read "Hollywoodland. The lastfour letters were removed in 1945, after Hollywood hadbecome the world's movie capital, and the Sign had alreadybecome a well-known landmark.

In 1978, after years of neglect, Hugh Hefner was one of anumber of patrons who donated funds to restore it. And in2010 Hef donated the final $900,000 needed to preserve 138acres of land behind the sign on Mount Lee.